ZFS, accessing harddrives

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@phill So if I look at this guide:

[HowTo] Install full Manjaro on ZFS filesystem

Difficulty: ★★★★☆ Background Below you can find a comprehensive tutorial on how to install Manjaro on ZFS collected from various sources into one. Although Manjaro-architect supports installing system on ZFS, such tool cannot find the existing zfs pool for system installation. The below instruction involves manual installation, i.e. installing in the Arch way. 0. Preparation Download the latest Manjaro ISO (the edition of your choice) from the Manjaro website and burn it to a bootable Live M…

You have to import a pool and mount a dataset.

@dobedobedo

Finally, export the zfs pool and then import them again with sudo. Do not skip this or you’ll have problems importing them later.

sudo zpool export <zfs-pool-name>
sudo zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -R /mnt <zfs-pool-name> -N

With the argument -R /mnt, when you mount your zfs dataset for the system later, it will automatically use /mnt as the root mountpoint and mount to the relative path under /mnt (e.g. if you set the mountpoint of the dataset to /home, then it will be mounted at /mnt/home).

4. Mount and configure the root filesystem

Mount the zfs datasets with sudo zfs mount, for example:

sudo zfs mount <zfs-pool-name>/<zfs-dataset-for-root>

This should mount the root dataset (in the above example, <zfs-pool-name>/manjaro/root) to /mnt.

I cannot guide you here, since I never used zfs and will not. BTRFS fits everything I need.